Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:15:49 -0500 From: "Larry Coleman" <larry@studio1620.com> To: "mark tinguely" <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pentium I box won't cold boot from hard drive! Message-ID: <006a01c06aa0$1e5989f0$270aa8c0@mavricc.com> References: <200012201553.eBKFruL10569@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
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I can cold boot using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies. That brings me to the install screen, but if I exit install without doing anything else, it warm boots fine. I'll try the 4.2-RELEASE. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <larry@studio1620.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Pentium I box won't cold boot from hard drive! > > > I installed FreeBSD RELEASE 4.1 on an old Pentium I machine. The install = > > went fine, but for some reason the machine will restart fine, but won't = > > cold boot if it shutdown and turn off the power. Any ideas? > > I think there were some boot block problems with FreeBSD 4.1[.1]-RELEASE. > without more details like can it boot if you use the diskette boot blocks > and manually give the boot command (for example ad(0,a)/kernel) when it > starts booting and other details as the hardware and configuration of the > machine. > > I would highly suggest installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from > Namezero.com. New! Namezero Plus domains now available. > Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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